Thursday, September 03, 2015

Three Interesting Things

1. A Twitter discussion broke out last week about the potential harm of pop culture characters that represent certain stereotypes, particularly if you live somewhere where these are your primary examples. This NPR Code Switch piece looks at how pop culture representations of marginalized people can both help and hurt.

2. Publisher Lee and Low have suggested a baseline diversity survey of publishing so that there is clear data as to the current state of the publishing industry. Several publishers have signed on, there is an accompanying Change.org petition to encourage others to follow suit.

3. This office has a cat library. You can check out a cat to hang with for the day. I swear I suggested this idea years ago, but they have made it happen!